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List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $11.99 You Save: $2.99 Features • Color • DVD-Video • NTSC In Theaters : 13 March, 1981 DVD Release : 07 September, 2004 |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | THE FUNHOUSE |
| Tobe Hooper has made a successful career directing horror films. who can forget his cult classic debut, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? Or, for mainstream audiences, the Steven Spielberg-produced Poltergeist? Or, Lifeforce and 2005's The ToolBox Murders. Another of Hooper's early films, The Funhouse (1981), is a solid and entertaining film deserving of horror status.
The Funhouse's plot is a fairly simple one. One evening, two young couples go on a double date to a carnival. The guys decide it might be exciting to spend the night in the house of horrors. strange, right? Still, the girls reluctantly agree, and all four teens sneak off into the spooky funhouse. Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong, and the teens' fun outing transforms into a night of horror. The Funhouse has a cast largely of unknowns, except for Elizabeth Berridge (best known as Mozart's wife in Amadeus). Berridge's girl-next-door persona in The Funhouse provides audiences with a likable and winsome heroine. As for the other cast members, well, this is a horror film, after all. Some of them might just meet a ghastly and untimely demise. In fact, The Funhouse opens with a typical slasher shower sequence similar to both Psycho and Halloween. Berridge portrays Amy, the young heroine who goes out on an evening date with her new boyfriend Buzz (Cooper Huckabee). Amy's friend, Liz (Largo Woodruff), tags along with her nerdy date, Richie (Miles Chaplin). And sneaking along behind all of them is Amy's kid brother Joey (Shawn Carson), who ends wandering aimlessly around the carnival before losing track of his sister and getting scared out of his mind. When the film's four teens hide in the funhouse, they are accidentally locked in. They are not alone inside, and after secretly witnessing a blood-chilling murder, they realize that unless they can escape from the funhouse, the same fate awaits them, too. The Funhouse, which is based on a Dean R. Koontz novel, has a good sense of style and thrills and offers enough twists to elicit more than a few sudden shrieks. Personally, I've always considered carnivals at night to be a little spooky and I enjoyed this movie from start to finish... Great Film. The Funhouse is presented in a color widescreen format. Although the transfer is only single-layered, the film looks quite nice, with good color saturation, accurate flesh tones, and solid black levels. Details are sharp and clear without any obvious dust or dirt, surprisingly. This is a very clean transfer with only a trace of grain. Audio *** The Funhouse is presented in stereo 2.0. It's not too powerful but generally serves the film well. Elizabeth Berridge proves to be a great shrieker, and had she done more horror flicks, she might have given Jamie Lee Curtis a run for the money as teen horror queen of the early 1980's. Features * There are no, murderous clowns in this film, contrary to any impression given by the DVD's front cover artwork,though there are some scary surprises. The only bonus feature is the trailer. One of Tobe Hooper's early horror films, The Funhouse will provoke many goosebumps and nervous squeaks. More of a "fun" horror film, it makes a great midnight treat, especially for those chilly movie nights. |
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